News and Links

Layer 1

• Latest issue of what’s new in eth2

• Beacon chain spec v0.5

• Latest Eth2.0 implementer call. Agenda to follow along.

• Wire protocol for Eth2 from Whiteblock

• Nimbus dev update: sim progress, speed optimizations, beginnings of fork choice and a wire protocol implementation

• Prysmatic dev update: LMD Ghost fork, e2e testing tool, Sparse Merkle trie tools for validator post activation

• Yeeth dev update: libp2p implementation, BLS, spec contributions

• Eth2 data visualizer built at EthParis

• Piper Merriam on serialization options in Eth2

• protolambda’s eth2 state transition function in Go

• Validator economics in Eth2, part 2

• Jacek Sieka’s beacon chain in practice explainer

• Hsiao-Wei’s “life of a beacon chain validator” slides

Layer 2

• Connext’s DaiCard launches on mainnet. Instant Dai payments over state channels. Limited to $30 right now as it is still beta.

• Matter Labs is working to implement a Sonic SNARK structure (ie, no trusted setup) with first benchmarks at ZK Summit in a week

• Cryptostaw - “decentralized Venmo” built on Matic Network/Plasma. Live on Kovan.

• Enuma enumerates on its trustless exchange and SDK

• Pisa: Vision for Off-chain and Non-Custodial Smart Contract Networks. Patrick McCorry’s survey of layer 2 and how a 3rd party watchtower helps them reach full potential.

Stuff for developers

• Solidity v0.5.6

• OpenZeppelin v2.2

• Truffle v5.0.8

• Buidler beta 2 with TypeScript support for tests and configuration

• Solidity IDE v2

• Nodesmith: an API for Ethereum’s JSON RPC

• Tutorial: OpenLaw API + Truffle + React.js

• what’s new in iExec SDK v3

• Enjin’s SDK live on the Unity Asset Store.

• NFT QR dispenser

• TheGraph compares GraphQL to SQL

• How Mythril went from simple symbolic analyzer to security platform

• Portis SDK adds Gas Station Network so apps can sponsor gas fees for users

Ecosystem

• What is Burner Wallet and what is xDai? explainer. Also, the Helena prediction markets platform moved to xDai

• Taylor Monahan: the impossible balance between security and usability

• Kent Barton: scaling civility. Also: Aya Miyaguchi’s statement on community values.

• Submissions from ETHParis and EthUofT. My favorite was Marius van der Wijden’s GPU Snark - 148x speedup on the Fast Fourier Transform part of the proof

Enterprise

• Oaken Innovations/Brisa/ViaVerde on MOBI prizewinner Vento. Tokenized euro on Ethereum/Quorum for tolling, parking, etc

• Middle East real estate developer Emaar planning to sell a token for “full referral and loyalty system across the entire group”

• Air cargo billing, costing and reconciliation system. Article doesn’t say but since blockchain = Ethereum, it was built on Ethereum

Governance and Standards

• Latest core developers call. Agenda to follow along.

• r/ethereum is going through some governance growing pains

• Loredana: Implementing a Layer 2 voting mechanism with noncustodial onboarding

• EIP1155 is in last call

• ERC1843: Claims token standard

• ERC1844: ENS interface discovery

• EIP1829: Ecmul precompile

Application layer

• The 2019 season of Major League Crypto Baseball: player performance will influence how often the player is minted. They’re also moving everyday gameplay actions offchain.

• Veil now lets you create your own markets

• Melon: goodbye Melonport, hello world

• Spankchain 2019 plans: private shows, international models, accepting credit cards, video purchasing.

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks 

• Eth1 leader Alexey Akhunov on Into the Ether

• Kyber’s Loi Luu on Decentralize This

• Uniswap’s Hayden Adams with Laura Shin

• KZen’s Omer Shlomovits on Hashing It Out

• Skale Network’s Stan Kladko on NEAR’s Whiteboard Series

• MolochDAO’s Ameen Soleimani on POV Crypto

• Truffle’s Tim Coulter on Software Engineering Radio

• All the EthCC talks

• Vitalik Buterin “scalable blockchains as data layers” from Taipei meetup

Tokens / Business / Regulation

• SEC Chairman Clayton agrees with Hinman’s statement outlining why Eth is not a security

• House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy calls for US Congressional transparency using blockchain

• Fred Wilson on Decentralized Finance, though he only got into the very basics of DeFi activity.

• Interesting analysis of LAND markets in Decentraland

• Short selling in bonding curves

General

• Joe Lubin: in 2 years, Ethereum will handle millions of transactions per second

• Gitcoin is doing another $50,000 grant matching program

• Starkware: Arithmetization II

• Trustlines Network is rebooting as a proof of stake sidechain to Ethereum

• Mainnet hub of Cosmos launches

• Omise’s Go.exchange soft launched

• MyEtherWallet launches EthVM block explorer. Ropsten only at the moment.

• “Hunting Huobi scams” Harry’s writeups of phishing attacks are always interesting

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

• Mar 22 - Zero Knowledge Summit 0x03 (Berlin)

• Mar 27 - Infura end of legacy key support 

• April 4-5 - Deconomy (Seoul)

• April 8-14 - Edcon hackathon and conference (Sydney)

• Apr 19-21 - ETHCapetown

• Apr 29 - Oslo Blockchain Day

• May 9 - Fluidity Summit (NYC)

• May 10-11 - Ethereal (NYC)

• May 16 - Token Summit (NYC)

• May 17-19 - ETHNewYork

• May 17 - Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork

• May 23-25 - Swarm Orange Summit (Madrid)

• June 22-24 - Zcon1 (Split, Croatia)

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